meaning of hacking x for y
1. Hacking X for Y [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information the INQUIR record was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" e. g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky"". This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement such as Unix plan files. [Jargon File] Hackintosh 1.
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